Cut The Umbilical Cord Quotes

#1. Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Lee Ezell

#2. In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Irwin Shaw

#3. Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

Charles Bukowski

#4. The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction.

Moshe Safdie

#5. They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder.

Henry Miller

#6. The responsibilities, roles, and divinely endowed gifts of men and women differ in nature but not in quality, significance, or degree of importance, impact, or influence. Latter-day Saint doctrine places women equal to, and yet distinct and different from, men.

Sheri Dew

#7. Tape Seinfeld for me.

Harvey Korman

#8. That accents of the hero's self-consciousness are really objectified and that the work itself observes a distance between the hero and the author. If the umbilical cord uniting the hero to his creator is not cut, then what we have is not a work of art but a personal document. Dostoevsky's

Mikhail Bakhtin

#9. For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.

Tommy Cooper

#11. Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Larry Niven

#12. But birthdays are random ... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.

Neal Shusterman

#13. The truck stopped in front of the hospital. Everyone seemed relieved that they would tend to the bald man's injuries. But they did not. They were waiting. A woman who was also on the list was giving birth to a baby. As soon as the umbilical cord was cut, they would both be thrown into the truck.

Ruta Sepetys

#14. I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.

David Ebershoff

#15. Suffering shows us what we are attached to - perhaps the umbilical cord between Mother and me has never been cut. Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

Terry Tempest Williams

#16. WILLIAM, yesterday, he said that he relied upon the growing taste in Hoboken for Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States

Various

#17. The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

Tom Brokaw

#18. With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.

Mekhi Phifer

#19. If we neglect Scripture in order to read only other books, we not only cut ourselves from the divine umbilical cord that feeds our souls, we also cut ourselves from the truth that makes it possible for us to benefit from the truth, goodness, and beauty in the books that we read.

Tony Reinke

#20. Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition."
Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.

Deborah Brodie